Genesis 2:15

WEB

¹⁵The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

KJV

¹⁵And the LORD^[+] God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

BSB

¹⁵Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

FBV

¹⁵^[+] The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and care for it.

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Extra References

Psalms 128:2

²For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Genesis 2:8

⁸The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Ephesians 4:28

²⁸Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Genesis 2:2

²On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Job 31:33

³³if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,